Product Details

• Actors: Eric Johnson, Chris Maresh, Tommy Taylor
• Directors: Hank Lena
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Vanguard Records
• DVD Release Date: November 11, 2008
• Run Time: 74 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001G1L3MQ
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #102,152 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

About the Actor

Eric Johnson is on the short list of all-time guitar heroes. For the past twenty-five years his peers have viewed his unique purity of tone and technical brilliance as the stuff of legend, something that must be experienced live to be believed. Among his many accolades are a GRAMMY® for "Cliffs Of Dover" a track from his Platinum certified Ah Via Musicom, lifetime induction into the Guitar Player Gallery of Greats, his listing among the "100 Greatest Guitarists of the 20th Century" by Musician Magazine, and again and again readers of the Austin Chronicle have voted Johnson the city's "Best Electric Guitarist" and "Best Acoustic Guitarist" in their yearly poll--they also named him "Electric Guitarist of the Decade" and one of the top five "Musicians of the Decade" in 2000.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Extremely tough act to follow, December 3, 2008

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Don F. Mccollough - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Anaheim Live (DVD)

It was with anticipation that i opened my copy of Anaheim today. His performance is engaging and spirited throughout and his interaction with the audience has improved since the '88 recorded ACL

DVD. However, what is lacking is the superior camera work we saw on the

ACL DVD....in fact, it's not even close!! For some reason, there are even

shots from the very back of the venue(or out in the street) so far away

that you can barely make out the band/EJ. When closeups come and you finally get to see Eric at work, we are thrust throughout the venue front

to back to side...etc. At times, it distracts excessively from Eric performace and that should not happen. I personally prefer his setup and sound from ACL to his current setup and Cliffs of Dover on a Gibson SG sounds at times hurried and out of tune(horrors). Still, he is my favorite artist...but there are much better performances that he has done(ACL in particular)that could/should be tapped into for their artistry and quality.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Eric Johnson "Anaheim" Concert DVD, February 4, 2009

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Gary Covington "Southern Rocker" (Louisiana, U.S.A.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Anaheim Live (DVD)

THIS IS AN EXCELLENT GUITAR ORIENTED CONCERT performed by Eric Johnson at the "Grove" in Anaheim, California on May 3, 2006. Eric is a true guitar master!!! If you like good guitar music, you'll LOVE every minute of this one. This is a "must-have" for any Eric Johnson Fan or any Guitar Rock Fan. If you like great guitar play, buy this, you'll love every minute of it, I know I do!!!

Eric Johnson is a Grammy Award Winning Guitarist and performer!!!

The total approx. run time is 1 hour and 14 minutes.

This is the only comtemporay Eric Johnson stage performance. It features Eric on lead vocals and excellent electric guitar play, Tommy Taylor on drums and Chris Maresh on bass guitar. This includes the only recorded Eric Johnson performance of Jimi Hendrix's "Manic Depression". Eric is an outstanding guitar master!!! This concert performance is simply outstanding in all aspects!!!

The songs are as follows:

1. Summer Jam

2. My Back Pages

3. Trademark

4. Manic Depression

5. On the Way to Love'

6. Rocktopus

7. S.R.V. (A special song dedicated to the late great Stevie Ray Vaughan).

8. Little Bit Me Little Bit You (A Monkey's Classic done Eric Johnson style).

9. Cliffs of Dover

Also, you get bonus acoustic performances some on piano of "Wind Cries Mary", "Song for George", and "Song for Lynette". Also, you get bonus interview with Eric and it contains some more electric guitar performances.

This is a welcome release from Eric. It shows a mature Eric performing exceptionally well!!! I highly recommend it!!! Thanks for reading my review and may God Bless, thanks.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars video quality leaves a lot to be desired, April 9, 2009

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David I. Pordy "David Pordy" (Tucson, AZ) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Anaheim Live (DVD)

I'm going to give this two stars instead of one because Eric Johnson is an incredible guitar player and I'd even watch an Eric Johnson concert in black & white.

The camera work is pathetic. Also this was intended as a home video release, so why was it shot in 2:35:1? Concerts are shot in 1:85 or 1:78. Not only does the camera work suck but the quality also sucks. I realize that this DVD probably wasn't given the same buget as say The Foo Fighters BluRay or The Police Certified but the Jeff Beck DVD that just came out blows this away.

I've seen Eric Johnson probably a half dozen times in concert and he's never played for less than 2 hours. So why is this DVD only about an hour of music?

The standards have gone way up for what a concert DVD or concert BluRay should look like and this falls way short of expectations.